13/09/06
Years, weeks and days
Passes by as you gaze
Your life changes in every way
Sad, mad, maybe gay.
What matters then
When all else fades,
But you and I,
We're here to stay.
rawr! a go at poetry... yea... well.. i still need to know how to jio girls...
(update: wow.. I guess I had a hit song title before Bruno Mars seeing how long ago I came up with this title)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Smarts? Elite? Creative?
29/06/06
I have not blogged coming to 1 month plus due to tests, projects, time constraint, commitment to CCAs, activities and blahblah. Well, one thing was I did not have the time and I did not know what to write in this blog since I want it to be a bloggerum. Guess what? I have thought of something to say.
Smarts, Elite, Creative (SEC). What happens if you do not have the smarts, you are not an elite and you are not creative? Will one be able to survive living in this country?
I for one really do not have the smarts since I was the only one who failed my test. I shall credit that to my disinterest in that module though nonetheless, I need to buck up and bring up my average. I did not expect to fail it.
In reality, SEC people are treated much better than normal average or below average students. One can definitely tell as SEC people are being sponsored, usually groomed to go to the university and their career path are all laid out in front of them. One fine example was I heard that the top student has a personal consultant in school. I am not really bothered by that but rather bothered by the fact that sometimes lecturers or teachers do give attention to them rather than the rest of the cohort. I get bothered by the fact that lecturers give attention to their own students rather than the whole lecture theatre. It gives one the feeling of "I'm talking to you but I'm facing someone else."
Wouldn't the idea of grooming other students to achieve better results too be more feasible rather than being bias? What ever happened to base on justice and equality? Special treatment outside normal school time is fine because its anyone's free time to do whatever they want.
So what happens to us normal people apart from SEC? Well, basically we need to work harder and improve ourselves. Being normal is fine (isn't it?) though to attain success we would then have to work doubly hard on our own. Also if you are ever treated like SEC people, I would say that one should make use of this opportunity to be on the road that is laid out to success and not stray away from it. If the elite society is a place where you feel you don't belong then how bout changing yourself to get with the society? It would definitely be a waste if one gets away from it as the elites are usually having incentives. (Yes, even though there is nothing wrong with average and normal.) I would not be surprised if Singapore would be an overly pro elitist society. The Public Display of Favouritsm (PDF) is seen all around. How bout equality?
(Sorry for the late entry k)
I have not blogged coming to 1 month plus due to tests, projects, time constraint, commitment to CCAs, activities and blahblah. Well, one thing was I did not have the time and I did not know what to write in this blog since I want it to be a bloggerum. Guess what? I have thought of something to say.
Smarts, Elite, Creative (SEC). What happens if you do not have the smarts, you are not an elite and you are not creative? Will one be able to survive living in this country?
I for one really do not have the smarts since I was the only one who failed my test. I shall credit that to my disinterest in that module though nonetheless, I need to buck up and bring up my average. I did not expect to fail it.
In reality, SEC people are treated much better than normal average or below average students. One can definitely tell as SEC people are being sponsored, usually groomed to go to the university and their career path are all laid out in front of them. One fine example was I heard that the top student has a personal consultant in school. I am not really bothered by that but rather bothered by the fact that sometimes lecturers or teachers do give attention to them rather than the rest of the cohort. I get bothered by the fact that lecturers give attention to their own students rather than the whole lecture theatre. It gives one the feeling of "I'm talking to you but I'm facing someone else."
Wouldn't the idea of grooming other students to achieve better results too be more feasible rather than being bias? What ever happened to base on justice and equality? Special treatment outside normal school time is fine because its anyone's free time to do whatever they want.
So what happens to us normal people apart from SEC? Well, basically we need to work harder and improve ourselves. Being normal is fine (isn't it?) though to attain success we would then have to work doubly hard on our own. Also if you are ever treated like SEC people, I would say that one should make use of this opportunity to be on the road that is laid out to success and not stray away from it. If the elite society is a place where you feel you don't belong then how bout changing yourself to get with the society? It would definitely be a waste if one gets away from it as the elites are usually having incentives. (Yes, even though there is nothing wrong with average and normal.) I would not be surprised if Singapore would be an overly pro elitist society. The Public Display of Favouritsm (PDF) is seen all around. How bout equality?
(Sorry for the late entry k)
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Go figure?
28/03/06
it's been awhile since i really really post...
right now this new blog which i created will be used more for discussions and topics which are serious matters to talk about...
i have to mature.. no more being childish and stupid... no nonsense... grow up...
on a sat afternoon after service... walking towards the mrt we saw a booth with a dude who is wheelchair bound.. he was approaching people to buy those charity tickets... Kim asked me... are those charity people just playing with our feelings to just get us to pity and sympathise to buy from them those draw tickets? (draw tickets as in lottery that months later there'll be a draw blah blah with prizes etc) and at the end of the day not everything we donate is gone into the funds for them...
her question to me made me think and it reminded me of something... its... i wanted to do a post about this during the time of NKF when everything was exposed...
my reply was i don't think they are playing with our feelings and that yes not everything we donate go into the funds but think about it... who would do something out of voluntary and not earn any money in helping charity for the rest of his life... how will he/she survive? or another way who will be willing to fork out his/her time to help whereby you get no incentives? will you?
this reminded me of a time when i was in my sec sch.. i had a job selling charity tickets too... some middle aged working career woman, i approached her asked her if she could purchase 1 which cost $2... she asked me if i was earning anything out of it... i told her yea i am... i earned like $0.40 per ticket sold... i was being frank about everything... the moment she heard yea i am... she brushed me off and walked off just like that... (i wonder how she felt when she heard NKF and does she remember brushing me off when i did tell her the truth) i think $1 out of $2 goes to the organisation to help the need or was if $0.50...
as an office worker, my guess is that she would be earning at least 2k a month... all i am asking was for a donation of $2 and i tell you the truth unlike others who lied saying no... at the end of the day a fraction still goes to the organisation... if you do not donate at all... nothing is put to help the organisation and have you pledged donations to other organisations? if you did i do not mind you brushing me off like that but can you confirm that those organisations do not pocket the money too?
years down the road.. NKF got exposed... i bet everyone from that time hearing that people like us earn money per ticket sold would shun away from us like a plague and would donate to NKF but then NKF got exposed how did everyone feel... hmm... i feel like i've been wronged? they earned millions... a donation of $5 plus the surcharge per call is much more than a miserable $2...
my question i have is..
1)will you give up your job being paid at least $2k per month or participate heavily in voluntary work to raise funds with zero incentives?
2)will you purchase a charity ticket with no lottery draws? donate money just like that?
another thing is... when you did community service in secondary school.. whatever you did was it really out of heart or for the sake of doing or for community service hours? do not lie to yourself but just be frank... i know many people just did not give a damn... so is it wrong to earn a little incentive for work? if they earn too much then that is seriously bad but just a little to get helpers would it be ok?
my opinion is that at the end of the day if people do earn abit out of raising funds for organisations do not be so petty about it will you be willing to do what they do for free?
please feel free to comment on anything...
it's been awhile since i really really post...
right now this new blog which i created will be used more for discussions and topics which are serious matters to talk about...
i have to mature.. no more being childish and stupid... no nonsense... grow up...
on a sat afternoon after service... walking towards the mrt we saw a booth with a dude who is wheelchair bound.. he was approaching people to buy those charity tickets... Kim asked me... are those charity people just playing with our feelings to just get us to pity and sympathise to buy from them those draw tickets? (draw tickets as in lottery that months later there'll be a draw blah blah with prizes etc) and at the end of the day not everything we donate is gone into the funds for them...
her question to me made me think and it reminded me of something... its... i wanted to do a post about this during the time of NKF when everything was exposed...
my reply was i don't think they are playing with our feelings and that yes not everything we donate go into the funds but think about it... who would do something out of voluntary and not earn any money in helping charity for the rest of his life... how will he/she survive? or another way who will be willing to fork out his/her time to help whereby you get no incentives? will you?
this reminded me of a time when i was in my sec sch.. i had a job selling charity tickets too... some middle aged working career woman, i approached her asked her if she could purchase 1 which cost $2... she asked me if i was earning anything out of it... i told her yea i am... i earned like $0.40 per ticket sold... i was being frank about everything... the moment she heard yea i am... she brushed me off and walked off just like that... (i wonder how she felt when she heard NKF and does she remember brushing me off when i did tell her the truth) i think $1 out of $2 goes to the organisation to help the need or was if $0.50...
as an office worker, my guess is that she would be earning at least 2k a month... all i am asking was for a donation of $2 and i tell you the truth unlike others who lied saying no... at the end of the day a fraction still goes to the organisation... if you do not donate at all... nothing is put to help the organisation and have you pledged donations to other organisations? if you did i do not mind you brushing me off like that but can you confirm that those organisations do not pocket the money too?
years down the road.. NKF got exposed... i bet everyone from that time hearing that people like us earn money per ticket sold would shun away from us like a plague and would donate to NKF but then NKF got exposed how did everyone feel... hmm... i feel like i've been wronged? they earned millions... a donation of $5 plus the surcharge per call is much more than a miserable $2...
my question i have is..
1)will you give up your job being paid at least $2k per month or participate heavily in voluntary work to raise funds with zero incentives?
2)will you purchase a charity ticket with no lottery draws? donate money just like that?
another thing is... when you did community service in secondary school.. whatever you did was it really out of heart or for the sake of doing or for community service hours? do not lie to yourself but just be frank... i know many people just did not give a damn... so is it wrong to earn a little incentive for work? if they earn too much then that is seriously bad but just a little to get helpers would it be ok?
my opinion is that at the end of the day if people do earn abit out of raising funds for organisations do not be so petty about it will you be willing to do what they do for free?
please feel free to comment on anything...
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